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Attention, Lorax fans: we're getting a new Dr. Seuss book.

Attention, Lorax fans: we're getting a new Dr. Seuss book.

By Brittany Allen | October 28, 2025

Diana Arterian on Agrippina the Younger, Writing Historical Women, and Poetry as Liberty

Diana Arterian on Agrippina the Younger, Writing Historical Women, and Poetry as Liberty

The Author of “Agrippina the Younger” in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | June 23, 2025

Against Erasure: Preserving the Memory of Black Communities in Los Angeles and Across the Country

Against Erasure: Preserving the Memory of Black Communities in Los Angeles and Across the Country

Arianne Edmonds on the Intellectual and Political Legacy of Her Great-Great-Grandfather, Jefferson Lewis Edmonds

By Arianne Edmonds | June 11, 2025

Writing With Four Hands: Anne and Claire Berest on Writing a Novel Together as Sisters

Writing With Four Hands: Anne and Claire Berest on Writing a Novel Together as Sisters

A Conversation Between the Authors of “Gabriële” (As Translated by Michael Reynolds)

By Literary Hub | April 23, 2025

The Trump administration is coming for American history. Here's what we can do to fight back.

The Trump administration is coming for American history. Here's what we can do to fight back.

Meet the non-profit fighting to protect the archive from "truth and sanity."

By Brittany Allen | April 14, 2025

Five Takeaways from the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne Papers

Five Takeaways from the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne Papers

Evelyn McDonnell on Feminism, Family, and Feuds

By Evelyn McDonnell | April 7, 2025

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Can you read cursive? Then the National Archives wants YOU.

By Brittany Allen | February 4, 2025

Danielle Legros Georges on Docupoetics, the Nuances of Haiti, and Letter-Writing as Poetry

By Literary Hub | January 13, 2025

Snapshots in Verse: On Hannah Arendt’s Long-Lost Poems

By Literary Hub | December 9, 2024

Soil As Archive: On the Work of Recognizing Alternate Forms of Sentience

Soil As Archive: On the Work of Recognizing Alternate Forms of Sentience

Angie Sijun Lou Considers the Many Conceptions of Time

By Angie Sijun Lou | May 8, 2024

What Obituaries Can Tell Us About How the World Views Artists

What Obituaries Can Tell Us About How the World Views Artists

Jim Moske Explores the Met Archives For Posthumous Stories Lost to Time

By Jim Moske | April 11, 2024

Beth Kephart on the Eternal Hope of Rare Books

Beth Kephart on the Eternal Hope of Rare Books

"We go to books for solace, and for proof, to begin again at the beginning."

By Beth Kephart | November 16, 2023

Raising the Dead from Paper: Katharine Quarmby on Fiction's Friendly Ghosts

Raising the Dead from Paper: Katharine Quarmby on Fiction's Friendly Ghosts

"Remembering is both an act of restitution and of defiance."

By Katharine Quarmby | October 16, 2023

Access For Whom? On Gaining Permission to Narrate Egypt’s Past

Access For Whom? On Gaining Permission to Narrate Egypt’s Past

Alan Mikhail Navigates Bureaucracy and Identity in the Egyptian National Archives

By Alan Mikhail | January 23, 2023

How Janet Malcolm Created Her Own Personal Archive

How Janet Malcolm Created Her Own Personal Archive

Eve Sneider on Malcolm’s Posthumous Still Pictures

By Eve Sneider | January 18, 2023

Thomas Pynchon’s archives have a home (Oedipa Maas and Zipi Pisk can finally relax)

Thomas Pynchon’s archives have a home (Oedipa Maas and Zipi Pisk can finally relax)

By Jonny Diamond | December 16, 2022

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